Observed arrival · 2026-09-13
Earmuffs: A Privacy Tool That Shows Its Work
Earmuffs presents a phone-privacy tool for blocking microphone access, filtering tracker traffic, and recording what the operating system can actually verify.
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The product separates two kinds of protection that are often collapsed together: Android microphone controls and on-device filtering of tracker destinations. Its example log records timestamps, apps, categories, outcomes, and sources, while explicitly marking whether each conclusion came from the operating system or from an inference. The page says Android Hard Lock needs the free Shizuku helper, whereas the iPhone version cannot control microphone access and instead focuses on a local filtering tunnel.
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